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==Introduction==
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley State University (also known as GVSU), is a public, liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan, United States. The university is located west of Grand Rapids, Michigan. and offers classes at a second campus in downtown Grand Rapids--GVSU's Pew Campus. The Pew Campus houses programs in Engineering, Education, Nursing, Health Professions, and Business. A third campus in Holland, Michigan houses many of the online hybrid degree programs and two graduate programs--the Master’s of Business Administration and the Masters of Education. Three satellite regional centers are located in Traverse City, Detroit, and Muskegon.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, in 2022In the semester Winter 2023, there are 22were 20,406 197 students, with 1917,239 240 of them being undergraduate and the other 32,027 957 students being graduate students. Grand Valley is still able to maintain its average class size of 26 students. There are 96 undergraduate programs and 45 graduate programs. Grand Valley also offers over 400 student-led clubs and organizations.</span></span></span><ref>https://www.gvsu.edu/about.htm
https://reports.ia.gvsu.edu/snap/snap_20231.html</ref> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><font face="Arial">President Philomena Mantella<span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In fall 2023 it welcomed a historic number of incoming freshman. Grand Valley is still able to maintain its average class size of 26 students. As of Fall 2023 it employs 1, affectionately known as Philly215 faculty, is the first woman to serve in this positionit also had 100 undergraduate programs and 45 graduate programs. She has initialized a program known as the "Grand Huddle" in order to encourage dialogue regarding Grand Valley's innovative futurealso offers over 400 student-led clubs and organizations.</span></span></font></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;"><font face="Arial">President Philomena Mantella<span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="fontvertical-familyalign: Arialbaseline; colorwhite-space: rgb(0pre-wrap;">, 0affectionately known as Philly, 0); is the first woman to serve in this position. She has initialized a program known as the "''Reach Higher 2025''"</span></span></font></span></span><ref>https://www.gvsu.edu/reachhigher2025/what-variantweve-numericlearned-2.htm</ref> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color: normal#000000; "><fontface="Arial"><span id="docs-variantinternal-eastguid-asian: normal; 7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within GVSU, the Frederik Meijer Honors College is housed. The Honors College has 8% of all undergraduate enrollment. In Fall 2019, there was an all-time high total enrollment of 1,700 students, and enrollment has been capped. A multitude of majors are represented within the Honors College, but as of 2018 60% of the students are in STEM majors. The focus on the Honors College curriculum is an alternate education that focuses on integration of topics and perspectives, utilizing the resources surrounding the GVSU communityorder to encourage dialogue regarding Grand Valley's innovative future.</span></span></font></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><spanid="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley houses a Technology Commercialization OfficeWithin GVSU, the Frederik Meijer Honors College is housed. The Honors College has 7% of all undergraduate enrollment. This office functions similarly to In Winter 2023, there was a Technology Transfer Functiontotal enrollment of 1,215 students. The office focus on the Honors College curriculum is an alternate education that focuses on creating connections between facultyintegration of topics and perspectives, students, and industry utilizing the resources through scholarships and connection programssurrounding the GVSU community.</span></span></span>
<span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grand Valley houses a Technology Commercialization Office.</span></span></span><ref>https://www.gvsu.edu/tco/</ref> <span style="font-size:small;"><span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This office functions similarly to a Technology Transfer Function. The office focuses on creating connections between faculty, students, and industry resources through scholarships and connection programs.</span></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7f0ff4e6-7fff-3809-fcdb-0d9283e362ca"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There has been a movement through the past several years to improve the innovation and entrepreneurship landscape on GVSU main campuses. This recent push has gained the momentum of numerous courses, clubs, workshops, competitions and other programs involving innovation and entrepreneurship. The infrastructure is slowly growing to empower a greater number of students with the skills and mindset of an entrepreneur and innovator. A new building was just opened, known as the Innovation Design Center for Engineering. With a continued focus on liberal arts, Grand Valley has been working on integrating subjects to allow for students to receive a more well-rounded education.</span></span></span>
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==Campus Overview==
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